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R. H. Tawney has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus,…
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The real economic cleavage is not... between employers and employed, but between all who do constructive work, from scientist to laborer, on…
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One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.
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Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.
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Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.
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A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on…
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Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.
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It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.
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The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
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When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone…
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The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of…
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If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession…
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The real economic cleavage is not... between employers and employed, but between all who do constructive work, from scientist to laborer, on…
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I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports…
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My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They're not just persecuting me.…
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My main interest is in the promotion of human values. From birth we have a sense of affection and some sense of…
— Dalai Lama
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The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.
— Walter Raleigh
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Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.
— Sean Penn
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I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to…
— Michel Foucault
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to…
— Michel Foucault
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My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and…
— Dalai Lama
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My main interest, however, was in economics, not law.
— Merton Miller
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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do…
— Barry Goldwater
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